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Good evening.
We present tonight the story of a criminal lawyer's desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder.
Risking his career, his love, even his health,
and even greater terror when he finds his own guilty conscience is on trial.
Now on Climax, Jacob and the Angel.
And so ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution has painted Alyssa Carlton as a murderess.
She killed her husband in premeditation with an unregistered pistol from which the fingerprints had been removed,
and the serial number removed I should say.
Does the sun bother you, madam?
Yes.
The court's permission.
Ms. Mitchell.
My learned colleague and adversary, Mr. Decker, has alleged that a partial fingerprint found on this pistol to be that of Mrs. Carlton's.
If the court please exhibit C.
The card marked B is the partial print.
Now please note that four and only four points of similarity compare with the full fingerprint of Mrs. Carlton's.
Yet a minimum of ten points is necessary between fingerprints to establish proof.
Yet the prosecution bases the alleged ownership of an alleged murder weapon on only four points off a partial print.
Thank you.
Any one of us could possibly duplicate four points on any of our fingers, but not the necessary legal safeguard of ten.
Your Honor, defense counsel knows that our whole case exists on the estranged relationship that existed between the Carlton's,
of the threats of mayhem that she made to her husband.
The partial print is merely offered as cooperative evidence.
If a full fingerprint were offered, it could of course have the necessary ten points of similarity.
That is an assumption, Mr. Decker.
You want the jury to assume a full print, then assume the pistol to be hers, assume then she killed her husband.
The law demands facts and evidence, not assumption.
But even then, those four points could only compare with the four points found on Mrs. Carlton's little finger of her left hand.
Her pinky.
I challenge the prosecution to pull the trigger of this pistol with a pinky of his left hand.
This is a typical Edgar Holt maneuver to impugn the integrity of the...
Impugn? No.
Create doubt? Yes.
Reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt as to who fired what pistol.
Find the real killer, Mr. Decker.
Your Honor, if I may be excused a moment, Mr. Tambor will continue.
Your Honor, time, time and again in this courtroom, we have seen Mr. Holt try to confuse the issues of this trial.
Decker? We need a recess? No, no, no, I'm all right.
Has the jury reached a verdict?
We have, Your Honor.
Will the defendant rise and face the jury?
How does the jury find the defendant?
We find the defendant not guilty.
Jacob and the Angel.
Directed by Buzz Kulig.
Produced by Edgar Peterson.
Good evening, Mr. Holt. Hello, Jim.
Congratulations, you've done it again. Have it.
Thank you.
Thank you. Oh, refill.
Oh, Dr. Regan to see you, sir.
Oh.
Well, Paul. Oh.
Hello, Edgar. What brings you here today?
Miss Mitchell called me after the trial and so I...
So you called Dr. Regan, yes.
Well, Mohammed won't come to the mountains, so...
You know it's been four months since I've examined you. You've broken three appointments.
Is there something wrong? A little headache now and then? Nothing to get excited about?
You're not all right. Drink. Oh, thank you.
Do you realize what your condition is?
Hypertensive crisis manifested by a rapid, thready pulse.
I know, I know. I'm headed for a nervous breakdown.
I'm sorry, that report is four months old and so far no breakdown.
It could happen tomorrow. It's later than you think, counselor.
Oh, I'm fit as a fiddle. And as tight as one.
How much are you drinking these days?
Oh, now and then. Sharpens me up a bit.
It'll kill you.
You heard me. Now will you let me examine you?
Look, I don't have time. Why don't I call you and make an appointment, huh, Paul?
Oh, Edgar, you're ridiculous the way you talk.
Oh, Edgar! Edgar, I had to come and see you after all these months of it.
Paul, do you know Mrs. Carlton, Dr. Regan?
How do you do, doctor?
I'll show you to the door, doctor.
Good night, Mrs. Carlton. Good night, doctor.
Thank you, Chuck.
Think over what I said, Edgar.
You know I don't like to coddle my patients, but I don't like to bury them either.
Good night, Jenny.
Well, are you pleased to see me?
You're always pleasing to see.
I thought we'd go out and do the towns.
I want to show you my appreciation.
You have. You paid handsomely.
Oh, now, come on. Don't be clever with poor little Liza.
Oh, but I am. Surely you know just how clever I am.
Oh, the conceit of the man.
You know, you should have been an actor.
I find life and death in a courtroom much more exciting.
And profitable.
You know, you never lost a case.
Surely not all your acquittals were innocent.
It's a funny thing. I don't remember most of them.
The secret of being a good attorney is to not become too familiar with a client.
Thank you.
Except this one.
I hope you weren't thinking of voiding me after a job well done.
I think you would have liked to meet me some other way than defending me of a murder trial.
What better way to meet?
You were a lady in distress. I saved you.
You know, most men I know, they want to marry me the second or third time they miss me.
I know you three months.
I've seen you almost every day before and during the trial.
But as far as you are concerned, the jury is still out.
There's a doubt in your mind.
I want complete vindication. I want to see it in your eyes.
I guess I'm ashamed.
Well, say something.
What kind of a man are you?
Mrs. Andrade.
Good evening, Mr. Hall. Congratulations.
Thank you.
I did not know that you would work at the night after such a day.
I wouldn't miss our nightly chats for anything, Mrs. Andrade.
Besides, it does my soul good to see somebody doing really clean work.
How's your boy? Did he get the job?
Yes, Ricardo likes the pharmacy work.
I did not before get a chance to thank you for your letter of recommendation.
It's only a letter.
He got the job because of you, Mr. Hall.
I want to show my appreciation.
What's that?
Shrimp papilla.
Shrimp what?
Your taste.
Smells good.
Peasantish, Mr. Hall.
But in this country, delicacy.
It has everything.
Shrimps, clams, oysters, rice, chicken wings, mushrooms.
Mr. Hall, excuse me.
This is better than that.
Well, what you're saying, that shrimp, whatever you call it, might have a bigger kick at that.
Madam.
I want my Ricardo to be a lawyer just like you, Mr. Hall.
That's very flattering, Mrs. Andrade.
With the fingers, Mr. Hall. Like so, we eat.
In my village, we're no frogs.
It's delicious.
Blackstone, Cardoza, Garrow, Holmes. Yes?
Yes, all great men.
And Edgar Holt.
Oh, yes, yes. Your picture on my wall. I cut it out from the newspaper.
Really, Mrs. Andrade.
You talk nice.
You take interest in a poor scrub woman and a son.
You, a big lawyer.
You have a bigger heart.
You are afraid to show your heart.
You are afraid to show your heart.
What?
I mean, you are a big man. A good man.
Oh, excuse me. I must clean up, but you finish.
You know, darling, I don't understand Edgar.
This is the first time he hasn't shown up for dinner.
I mean, without calling.
Maybe he's not feeling well.
No, it's been the same ever since the Carlton trial.
And that was weeks ago.
Well, weren't you going to tell me what Chen said?
He said he thought he might be at the office.
He's been working nights.
Oh, with the Carlton woman, huh?
No, he made a point of telling me that he wasn't with her.
She's out of town.
I see.
You know, darling, Holt and Edgar were the two most brilliant students
I had in my law class, and they've both done well.
Holt, perhaps, too well.
You know, Dad, he doesn't come to the office during the day anymore.
Well, I've just got to tell him about Mrs. Andrada.
Now, where are you going?
You know perfectly well where I'm going.
Why, now, look here. You tell him that...
Tell him to take some pool lessons.
Mrs. Andrada?
No.
Oh, Irene.
What's the matter? Did you forget something?
No.
But you did.
You had a date for dinner with my father and me tonight.
Oh, I forgot.
Well, the judge was very disappointed when you didn't show up.
Guilty, guilty.
I thought I might find you here.
Well, it's nice and quiet and peaceful at night. The phone doesn't ring.
Oh, Edgar, I've hardly seen or talked to you since the Carlton trial.
Are you all right?
Of course I'm all right. I should maybe.
Edgar, if there was a case that you could take a personal interest in,
not a very good case, concerning a Mexican boy on a murder charge...
Oh, one of those. Not much percentage.
I see.
What do you mean, personal interest?
Mrs. Andrada.
What about her?
Her son is being held for murder.
Ricardo. Ricardo Andrada.
Oh, excuse me. Do you want me to clean in here now?
In a moment.
Do you know the facts?
What I do know doesn't look too good.
He was arrested this morning.
Now, I spoke to Mrs. Andrada this afternoon and I promised I'd speak to you.
You know what she said?
Mr. Holt is a big man.
That means you're too big and obviously too expensive,
so she wouldn't think of bothering you.
Come on.
Where?
To see Mrs. Andrada, of course.
Oh, now, wait a minute, Edgar.
Look, you know, you have a way of building people's hopes up.
You said you came here to interest me, didn't you?
Yes.
Well, I'm interested. Come on.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
I'm interested.
Well, I'm interested.
Come on now.
Mrs. Andrada here?
Oh.
Mrs. Andrada.
Why didn't you tell me what happened?
Ricardo didn't do it, Mr. Holt.
Now, we'll get to that.
I'm disappointed that you couldn't confide in me.
Thank you.
You're a very big man, Mr. Holt.
I'm also a man who eats paellas.
Son amigos tuyos.
Very good friends.
Now, look, I'm going to call your boy the first thing in the morning,
but as soon as I heard, I had to come over and assure you that I'll do everything I can.
Bless you, Mr. Holt.
Bless you.
He's a good boy, Ricardo.
He's a good boy.
I'm sure that he is, Mrs. Andrada, if he has anything of his mother in him.
¿Qué es lo que dice?
El, un famoso abogado, el ayudará a Ricardo.
I will work, Mr. Holt.
I will pay you.
All right, all right.
I have no money.
Now, stop that.
Now, you take care of her.
And you don't worry now, you understand?
Now, as soon as I've seen him, I'll call you tomorrow.
Thank you.
Tomorrow.
Good night.
Good night.
No, I'm kidding.
So, you're going to take the Andrada case after all, huh?
You put it in the negative, Judge.
It's not an ordinary case.
Well, I've interviewed the boy, and I have a strange notion he's innocent.
You know, Edgar, there are a lot of factors in this case that are outside of the courtroom.
Take, for instance, all this hue and cry put up by the press about immigrants pouring into the city.
I mean, the police, crusading against juvenile delinquency.
There's no proof of murder, no murder weapon, no witnesses.
Well, there'll be a lot of publicity connected with the case.
Publicity has nothing to do with it.
I don't need it.
Well, it's going to be a long, drooling haul.
And Caholt, or I mean Decker, can't afford to lose another case.
Well, good for him.
He's thrown out of the preliminary hearing.
I think not.
Hello, Edgar.
Irene.
Hello.
Lovely as ever.
Oh, thank you.
Good evening, Judge.
Good seeing you.
I thought it would be nice to, uh, old friends to get together.
That's before the battle, Mother.
Oh, then it's true you're taking the Andrada case.
I am.
Edgar, we've been friends for a long time, through college, country club, and courtroom.
Now, I don't mean to remind you of beating me at golf, but I do in court.
I don't intend to lose the Andrada case.
I'm sorry, Jim, but I intend to keep my record in tight.
Yeah, it's like your last one, Alyssa Cawthon.
You know darn well she was guilty of homicide.
You didn't prove your case.
No, you mesmerized the jury.
But I think this one's going to be different.
I think you've overreached yourself this time.
No witnesses, only circumstances.
It's circumstances that add up to a case.
You know, Jim, there's something that you've always refused to admit.
That although we use the law in our presentations, the jury responds emotionally.
They're children.
And I'm Papa Holt.
You know, I don't understand you.
This isn't your typical case.
It's not his typical case at all.
No rich widow or gangster.
There's no chance for a fat fee.
Well, for publication, I'm taking this case without fee.
It'll give me a chance to prove the dignity of my...
Of...
Our profession.
Oh, come off it, Edgar.
You don't anymore mean...
Edgar!
You've been out for over an hour.
Oh, I'm all right now.
I'm feeling no pain, Doctor.
You've been long in a hospital.
No, no, no.
Now look, we're all friends, Edgar.
And we know that something is...
Oh, what they do is it's all out in the open.
Look, why don't you go to the hospital for a couple of months?
I can't.
The Andrada case.
Don't be a fool, Edgar.
I'll fight you tooth and nail.
I don't expect less.
Edgar, I'm going to beat you.
I'm staking everything on it.
So am I.
So am I.
Bill Lundigan speaking.
In a moment, we return to the second act of Climax.
Hello, Bill.
George.
Well, I can tell by the happy look on your face, you're doing all right.
Boy, I sure am.
I've just made a very wise investment.
Oh, you did?
What'd you buy?
Let's look down in the parking lot and I'll show you.
Oh, what is it, George?
Oh, I see you bought a new car.
Oh, no, Bill.
Not just a new car.
A new Plymouth.
Yeah, sure, but what's this about a wise investment?
Well, when you buy a new Plymouth, it is a wise investment, Bill.
And I'll tell you why.
You've heard about these automobiles that are advertised at bargain prices?
Well, you don't get much automobile for your money, but when you buy a new Plymouth,
you get the full value for every dollar you spend.
Come here.
Just look at this baby.
Now, you know that's going to be a new car years from now.
That's why they say when you buy a Plymouth, you buy the car and the deal.
Look, let's go down to the lot.
I'll take you for a ride and you make up your own mind.
Well, let's go.
Okay, fine.
I think you'll find this is a wonderful car.
You'll really enjoy it.
Believe me.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's a fact.
When you buy a Plymouth, you get the car and the deal.
Only Plymouth in its field gives you features like torsion air ride,
total contact brakes, push button drive, full-time power steering,
and, of course, luxurious flight sweep styling, just to name a few.
Now, that's why you're years ahead when you buy a new Plymouth,
and money ahead, too, especially right now,
during your Plymouth dealer's double-value deal-away.
Prices are at rock-bottom lows for the year,
and your Plymouth dealer is dealing away with trade-ins that make your present car
worth more than it will ever be worth again.
So, friends, make the shrewd new car investment.
See your Plymouth dealer real soon, won't you, for a years-ahead Plymouth.
Be proud of the car and the deal.
And now we return to the second act of Climax,
tonight's starring Gig Young, June Lockhart, Eva Gabor, Otto Kruger, Hugh Marlow, and Key Luke.
Joe, this is for immediate release.
George Mitchell has been appointed to preside over the Andrava trial.
His daughter, Miss Irene Mitchell, of the firm of Holt, Tambler, and Mitchell,
has disqualified herself from actually participating in the trial.
Ed.
How about some food?
Oh, I'd love some coffee, Jesse.
I'll get some sandwiches, too.
I'll miss you, Irene.
Oh, don't worry. I'll be cheering from the sidelines.
Now, here's everything you'll have to know about the jurors' panel.
I think they're fairly representative, but there may be two or three here that you'll want to question.
What do you think, Irene?
About what?
The case.
You're asking me?
How can Decker possibly get a conviction?
The boy's returning home from a pharmacy, a job I got him at 11 o'clock at night.
He enters Kirby Park. He sees a figure lying in the grass.
He goes over to see what's wrong, and his shoes touch the man's body,
and he runs out of the park in panic into a policeman's arms.
Circumstances don't prove guilt to me.
It's the first time I've ever asked myself, is a client guilty or innocent?
Never mattered before. Guilty or innocent, they're all entitled to counsel,
and they can have mine if they can afford it.
I could discredit the policeman, lay the groundwork for prejudice.
Prejudice has nothing to do with it.
Maybe not, but it would create the issue, create precisely in the minds of the jury the prejudice, the...
I thought you believed in this case.
I want to win it.
Well, then win it the way you feel it, honestly.
Can I?
There's an old Chinese proverb.
When earthquakes come, great rocks are shattered, but the sands remain the same.
Edgar, a man needs doubt to make him better.
I am going to win this case.
Thank you.
Sorry I wasn't better company at the theater.
I'm sorry, darling, you didn't enjoy the play.
Well, do come in.
I should be getting back to the office.
It's really outrageous the way I chase you.
I don't see you for weeks and then I finally do corner you and you want to run away.
How can you be so nice and so rude at the same time?
Come at least have one drink.
No, I'm not drinking.
Fine, but I'll have one cigarette.
Really, Edgar, aren't you carrying this picture a little too far?
What do you mean?
Oh, this preoccupation with the Andrada case.
Edgar Hall, the champion of the underdog.
You don't believe it?
Oh, my darling, this is Elisa.
You got me off for murder, but I paid you a very fat fee.
I was hardly an underdog.
Wrong, Elisa, you were a champion.
Wrong, Elisa, you were an underdog.
You're the kind of a woman other women resent not being and the kind men resent not having.
And that gangster, was he an underdog too?
He was.
An underdog is anyone everyone is against for any reason.
I see.
Murderers, gangsters, and that poor little Mexican boy.
But tell me, on earth is he managing to pay you the fee he did?
He's not.
His mother scrubs my floors.
You are making fun of me.
No.
Oh, darling, darling, please don't go.
I'm sorry if I annoyed you, but you are so strange nowadays.
I liked you so much better when you were gay, glib, and so selfish.
But so distant now.
Scrub woman, son, and no fee.
Oh.
Oh, I see.
It's the biggest headline of them all.
You think that's why I took the case?
My darling, it's a natural.
You don't have to want headlines, they want you.
I happen to believe that that boy is innocent.
You never told me what you thought I was.
You were acquitted.
By the jury.
I want your decision.
Or do you only confide in charity cases?
Why don't I come back when I feel gay and clever and assured, huh?
I think that's a good idea.
Good night, Alyssa.
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Rule it over, rule it over, rule it over.
What's the matter with Mitch? He's beating me badly.
Don't take it so personally.
Get home, you all.
Don't worry about it.
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Ricardo Andrada was entering and leaving Kirby Park.
The death of his victim was established within the half hour of his capture.
The victim was 6'1", 210 pounds.
Ricardo Andrada was 5'6", 120 pounds.
It is established by the position of the body that the assailant saved his victim.
Can there be any doubt that Ricardo Andrada, one half his size, would have been easily overpowered?
There was blood on his shoes.
No murder weapon was found, no motive established.
Ricardo Andrada is guilty.
Ricardo Andrada is innocent.
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Tomorrow, summation night.
I can't get it, I can't get it.
You're tired.
Have some coffee.
The sermon on the mound, first second.
Why don't we knock off until morning? I'll leave early.
No, it won't come that easy.
Coffee, sir?
Don't coffee-serve me and stop patting around like a mother-in-law.
Should I drink something?
No.
Don't you?
I've got to. This one in my eyes is killing me.
You know where the drink will be?
I haven't had one in weeks.
I'm going to sharpen me up.
Better.
Thank you, Gretchen.
Oh, come on, cheer up, you two. You know how Dr. Garth.
All right, the sermon on the mound.
I've got to.
I've got to listen.
Yeah, I've got to.
Good people of the jury.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
I ask you not to be swayed by defense counsel's force of eloquence.
This is a court case, not a theory.
Remember that a 50th senseless murder is found quiet,
and Ricardo Andrada must answer for that crime.
Thank you.
Good people of the jury, we've been asked to be on guard
and not be taken in by the force of my eloquence.
If I force of eloquence and strictest opinion in court of truth,
I admit I am eloquent.
Now I shall use the words and arguments that have occurred to me at the moment,
for I am confident of the innocence of my client.
For the past three weeks, you have heard the evidence against this boy,
which is the complete evidence,
in which dubious facts have been tailored in all to consider handy and convenient parts.
We are going to have to decide whether this young boy
should spend the rest of his natural life in prison.
Now, I would like to ask you what is the meaning of life.
To me, it is this.
There is a spiritual power in the universe from which we derive our being, our consciousness.
And it is this consciousness which enables us to discern good.
And the purpose of life is to be good.
But then it is this.
The proof of it lies at the root of all great religion,
and it should be found supremely in the Sermon on the Mount.
It is to keep everyone equal,
to consider no one as contemptible as the individual,
but to love all men alike,
and to be good to all alike.
Now, this trial, it has been in first time and time again,
but an actualized citizen is a great beast.
Mrs. Encrada, a widow, is an American citizen,
her son is an American citizen, and all that connotation.
Condemn this boy without positive proof of murder and curse of others,
and you will make of democracy
a senile monster which eats its own children.
What then is good?
The proof of it is found at the root of all great religions,
and it should be found supremely in the Sermon on the Mount.
It is to live in peace with all men alike,
to love all men alike,
to be good to all alike,
and to be good to all alike.
To live in peace with all men,
to consider no one as contemptible as the individual,
as the individual.
I am sorry to interrupt the matter, Counselor,
I am sure we are all familiar with the Sermon on the Mount,
and there is no need to repeat yourself.
I think the Sermon on the Mount can stand repeating time and time again.
Oh, but what is the matter with you, Counselor?
I demand that this case be dismissed and Ricardo Encrada set free.
You are perfectly right.
I am quite impressed with you, Counselor,
but I have to do what I was told to do,
not to take this case to anyone who gets it.
That's it. This case is over.
I shall not take it from you.
I shall not take it from you.
Mr. Holt, you have just got to eat your food.
You can't suit yourself up in this room and not see anyone.
It's over a week.
Judge Mitchell has been calling.
He's not angry.
Mr. Holt, I'm going to cradle you.
Mr. Holt, you are a stubborn man.
People are trying to get in touch with you.
You won't say a damn thing.
I won't.
You won't say a doctor?
Oh, but Mr. Holt, that's no disgrace.
In fact, it does a man good to me.
It helps him get a better perspective.
He can't stay in this room forever.
I'm sure he'll be right to his own.
I know, I know. I'm fired.
And yet the same, I hope there's a mob out there.
Telegram for you, sir.
Give me a bottle.
Oh, there's no more, sir.
Can I read the telegram?
The Bar Association requests that you attend an investigation.
Give me a bottle, Tim.
Oh, Mr. Holt, you've got to face up to this telegram.
Why don't you call Judge Mitchell?
He'll help you.
All right, go ahead and tell him I'm sorry.
No, not that phone.
Use the other one.
Yes, sir.
Hello?
Oh, yes, Jim.
Oh, I've been trying to get in touch with you for days.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, yes, he's right here.
All right.
Yeah, that's him.
Yes.
Well, of course I'll talk with him.
Mr. Holt, the judge.
Mr. Holt.
Mr. Holt.
Tim, Tim.
Yes.
What?
When?
The fire escape.
I see.
Thank you.
Well, what is it?
What's happened?
Edgar has just disappeared.
It's a real thrill the first time you ride the curve in a cloud of clouds.
It's a real thrill the first time you hook down to a marlin and feel its fighting strength.
And it's a real thrill the first time you get behind the wheel of a Plymouth and say to yourself,
this is the car for me.
You'll find that Plymouth is the most advanced car in its field, a car that will stay new for years.
That's why buying a new Plymouth is the soundest new car investment that you can make.
Now, here are a few of the many years ahead features that you get in a new Plymouth that you can't get on the other two low-priced cars.
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Three full years ahead of the other two.
Torsion air ride.
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Total contact brake.
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Push-button drive.
No levers to bother with, just press a button.
You know, it's only when you own and drive a Plymouth that you can fully appreciate its superiority in everything that counts in an automobile.
And now is the very best time to see your Plymouth dealer during his double-value deal-away.
Double-value deal-away means you can buy a new Plymouth at the lowest prices of the year.
And right now, your Plymouth dealer is dealing away with trade-ins that make your present car worth far more than you may think.
So, ladies and gentlemen, hurry to your Plymouth dealer for the greatest buy you've ever made.
You can be proud of the car and the deal when it's a 1957 Plymouth.
And now we return to the third act of Jacob and the Angels, a story by Roland Brown and Sonny Galloway, adapted to 34 Climax by Oliver Crawford.
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Oh, man, I check these offices like this every morning.
Maybe they're in here in the night.
I wouldn't say anything's ever been just as realistic.
Oh, where could he go? Where could he be?
The police have no clue.
I-I never liked Edgar Holt. He just can't disappear.
Oh, darling, haven't you noticed in this advanced day and age how many people actually disappear?
Since Jesse lost the appeal, I've been so worried.
Poor Ricardo.
Have you, uh, kept in contact with Alisa Carlson?
No, but Jesse did.
He says that I don't think she's as interested now that some of the glitter's worn off.
At any rate, she says she hasn't seen him and doesn't know where he is.
At least he hasn't been coming here much.
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Oh, I agree. Edgar Holt.
That's right, Edgar Holt. The great Edgar Holt, you can see.
Oh, Martini.
Oh, Alessa, my dear, we really must go.
Oh, don't go. The party's just started.
Thanks for inviting me.
Good Lord, could you do this to me?
Oh, please don't leave me so as we're leaving in just one moment.
We'll be back together.
We who worship at the altar of Holt, no candles to a memory or an aching heart.
You're drunk.
This ain't.
This child has been wandering the face of the earth.
You and I have both been wandering, looking for...
What? What are you looking for, Alisa?
You were in my party.
Oh, I'm no longer glib and self-assured and charming.
Get out, or I have you thrown out.
Oh, it is always the succession, not the man.
Mary Ann.
Oh, will you play some music, please?
Oh, I'm sure of this. I'll be back in a little bit.
I can't have the music. I hope you have the music.
I can't have the music.
Hello?
Yes, Ken.
To what?
Where?
I found Edgar in a Kid Row hotel.
Where?
All right.
Don't let him out of your sight. I'm coming right over.
No, I'll take it.
Now, look, I'll call you.
No, wait a minute.
I'm telling what condition you'll be in.
No, I'm coming with you.
All right.
Hello, Edgar.
We've come to take you home, Mr. Holt.
Leave me alone.
We only want to help you.
But you beat me.
You beat yourself.
I know all the cases I've handled.
Only case I wanted to win.
Couldn't.
Look, son, do you think you can solve this?
I can't.
I'm not going to let you win.
I'm going to let you win.
I'm going to let you win.
If you beat me, I'd rather be dead without you.
I couldn't.
Look, son, do you think you can solve anything on a wet conscientious?
Oh, leave me alone.
Now, you go on.
Go on, get out.
Uh.
Leave me alone, will you, please?
I'll wait for you downstairs.
I'm not leaving without you, Mr. Holt.
Ha, ha.
Get on with it.
I'll wait for the judge.
Oh.
I'm not sorry for you the least bit. I'm angry because you're throwing your life away.
Oh.
You're not crippled or saddled with an incurable disease. You've had a dose of your conceit.
Think you're a little girl?
I'm not a little girl.
You're a little girl.
You're suffering from a fractured ego. One you're freaking your quid on yourself.
Well, the Liberty Bell has a crack and the rock of Duval is made of chalk.
Oh, and Edgar Holt is no Superman. Well, I've known that for some time.
All right, then here it is, my kingdom for a bottle.
Oh, stop it. Stop this play-acting.
You're a stubborn and desperate man.
Stop thinking of yourself all the time. Think of others.
One other, Mrs. Andrada.
Mrs. Andrada.
She asked for you.
I could have beat that girl. I could have beat that girl had I used a petting angle against that boy.
Is that what all this comes to? Just a brooding, petty self-defeat?
And that's not what Mrs. Andrada would have wanted.
She wants her boy.
Oh, Edgar, you've had a concept of justice blindfolded and tortured.
Oh, Edgar, you've had a concept of justice blindfolded and packaged for you to use as you saw fit.
You've got to realize you have to use it with respect and honesty and humility.
Edgar, your problem is as old as the history of mankind.
Just wrestling with your conscience.
The way... the way Jacob wrestled with the angel.
I care, Edgar.
I don't know why I care.
I don't know why you should care.
I don't deserve anything better than what Lisa called me.
Right now, I think so, too.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Mrs. Andrada?
Mr. Holt.
Don't just stand there like my conscience.
Say it. I let you down.
I let your son down.
I've let a lot of people down.
A lot of people.
And a lot of things.
It don't matter what you let down, Mr. Holt.
What does matter, you let yourself down.
Although I say that I deserve it, I hate myself.
I hate myself.
I hate myself, do you hear?
Yes.
Get angry, Mrs. Andrada. Get angry.
I am not angry.
Well, then!
Get angry and stop kicking.
I'm not licked.
I'm not licked.
I'm not licked.
Oh, Mrs. Andrada.
Don't ever hate me.
Don't ever hate me.
Your boy is going to be free.
Andrada, you're a boy.
Edgar, do you realize what it is you're proposing to do?
Absolutely.
I've been fighting something inside, a kind of a sickness, I guess.
And I think I've found out what it is.
So I'm writing to the Bar Association asking them to disbar me.
I was ill and incompetent and didn't draw one rational breath during Ricardo Entrada's trial
and therefore could not properly defend him.
Thus depriving him of his constitutional right to adequate counsel.
He is innocent and in prison today as a result of my unsound, whiskey-soaked brain,
signed in your hope.
Edgar, there must be another way of solving the problem without giving up your career.
Look, I've got to live with myself.
I'm not only giving Ricardo a chance for a new trial, I'm giving myself one.
What do you plan to do?
I'll think, look around, ask some questions, find some answers, I hope.
May I help you?
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Don't worry Tom, nobody else need ever know that I was poisoned.
Audrey, there's no proof.
No, no, no, we'll pretend it was an accident.
What else can you do?
Poor actor, poor confused actor.
I'm not the one who's confused, you are Tom.
You think I'm falling for her?
Audrey's a wonderful woman, I've never known anyone like her.
But you're my wife.
Why hasn't she heard some chitin about the insurance money?
I can't authorize payment of this policy.
My company is still not satisfied as to the causes of her husband's death.
I killed him, I tell you.
I won't put a time limit on my charity.
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Next on Climax, Mask to the Devil.
From an original story, The Albatross by Charlotte Armstrong,
adapted by John McGreevy, especially for Climax.
Starring Jan Sterling, Steve Forrest, Edith Talbot and Paul Stewart.
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